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Table 2 Predictors of week 16 endpoint scores for individual arms, after controlling for baseline scores

From: Are we drawing the right conclusions from randomised placebo-controlled trials? A post-hoc analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial

 

Placebo Group

n= 46

Active Treatment Group

n= 47

 

Flushes

Greene Climacteric

Scale

HDI-17

Flushes

Greene

Climacteric

Scale

HDI-17

 

β (SE)

p- value

β (SE)

p- value

β (SE)

p- value

β (SE)

p- value

β (SE)

p- value

β (SE)

p- value

Age at trial start

0.03 (0.28)

0.93

-0.26 (0.24)

0.28

-0.39 (0.17)

0.03

0.38 (0.32)

0.25

-0.21 (0.25)

0.41

0.23 (0.19)

0.24

Previous Herb Med effective

-10.9 (0.07)

0.63

-3.07 (1.84)

0.10

-3.14 (1.37)

0.03

-1.80 (3.04)

0.56

-4.46 (2.40)

0.07

-2.27 (1.88)

0.23

Attitude to menopause

-0.63 (2.18)

0.77

0.66 (1.88)

0.73

-0.24 (1.45)

0.87

-3.30 (2.97)

0.27

-4.54 (2.09)

0.04

-3.16 (1.60)

0.055

GCS score, study entry

-0.53 (0.17)

0.003

-0.43 (0.16)

0.012

-0.38 (0.13)

0.007

0.23 (0.26)

0.37

0.38 (0.26)

0.15

0.36 (0.18)

0.03

GCS anxiety, study entry

-0.97 (0.44)

0.03

-0.82 (0.39)

0.04

-0.33 (0.32)

<.001

1.16 (0.47)

0.016

0.65 (0.44)

0.14

0.68 (0.31)

0.02

Change in GCS scores during run-in

-0.02 (0.04)

0.59

-0.15 (0.06)

0.013

-0.07 (0.02)

0.005

-0.04 (0.08)

0.68

0.13 (0.08)

0.13

-0.07 (0.05)

0.15

  1. Unstandardised β-coefficient (SE)
  2. Results obtained from hierarchical linear regression analyses